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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The blueness
chabbuwrah (Hebrew #2250)
or chaburah {khab-oo-raw'}; from 2266; properly, bound (with stripes), i.e. a weal (or black-and-blue mark itself)
KJV usage: blueness, bruise, hurt, stripe, wound.
Pronounce: khab-boo-raw'
Origin: or chabburah {khab-boo-raw'}
of a wound
petsa` (Hebrew #6482)
a wound
KJV usage: wound(-ing).
Pronounce: peh'-tsah
Origin: from 6481
πcleanseth
tamruwq (Hebrew #8562)
or tamriyq {tam-reek'}; from 4838; properly, a scouring, i.e. soap or perfumery for the bath; figuratively, a detergent
KJV usage: X cleanse, (thing for) purification(-fying).
Pronounce: tam-rook'
Origin: or tamruq {tam-rook'}
away evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
: so do stripes
makkah (Hebrew #4347)
(plural only) from 5221; a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication, a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence
KJV usage: beaten, blow, plague, slaughter, smote, X sore, stripe, stroke, wound((-ed)).
Pronounce: mak-kaw'
Origin: or (masculine) makkeh {muk-keh'}
t the inward parts
cheder (Hebrew #2315)
an apartment (usually literal)
KJV usage: ((bed) inner)chamber, innermost(-ward) part, parlour, + south, X within.
Pronounce: kheh'-der
Origin: from 2314
of the belly
beten (Hebrew #990)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV usage: belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Pronounce: beh'-ten
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
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is a purging medicine against evil.
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Heb. 12:10• 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. (Heb. 12:10)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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cleanseth away evil.
Heb. is a purging medicine againstevil.
stripes.
Prov. 19:25• 25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge. (Prov. 19:25)
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Prov. 22:15• 15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Prov. 22:15)
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Isa. 27:9• 9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. (Isa. 27:9)
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Heb. 12:10• 10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. (Heb. 12:10)
• Added suffering is often required to purge the system of poisonous matter; therefore the skillful surgeon is not always concerned to immediately heal a wound. There is often a probing, and consequent inflammation, that is very painful, but good in result. So it is with God’s dealings when unholiness has been tolerated by His children. (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes purge the inner parts of the bellyk.

JND Translation Notes

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As ch. 18.8.